Outbound Calling Compliance by Jurisdiction

The United States has a federal National Do Not Call Registry enforced by the FTC and FCC under the Telemarketing Sales Rule, the TCPA, and FCC rules. Consumer and residential telemarketing is fully covered, while many business-to-business calls are exempt from the national registry framework but not from all federal calling restrictions.

Spain regulates outbound commercial calls nationally through Law 11/2022, Organic Law 3/2018, and AEPD Circular 1/2023. Businesses generally must have prior consent or another valid GDPR legal basis, and must consult the Lista Robinson advertising-exclusion system before direct-marketing campaigns where no such consent exists.